Today at 3:00 A.M., the City of Colorado Springs initiated winter operations.

The City of Colorado Springs snow crews are currently working in affected areas.Primary routes will be cleared first. Primary routes are multi-lane roads with large volumes of traffic or hospital access. Once the primary routes are passable, crews will move to secondary routes. Secondary routes include collector streets and school access. The City is responsible for 1,780 lane miles of primary and secondary streets.

It can take six hours or more to clear the primary routes in a large event; and, if snow is continuously falling, the primary routes often have to be treated more than once, delaying when crews can start on secondary routes. We ask residents to be patient and to delay optional trips in the first few hours or more of a snow event. There are several ways to stay informed about current conditions:

The automated snow line, 457-7669, will have a recording about the current callout status.

Colorado Springs National Weather Service forecast information is available at 573-6846.

Per current policy, the Streets Division will not respond to residential streets until at least 6 inches of snow has accumulated, and the primary and secondary routes have been cleared, and the snow has stopped falling. In a large event, it could be several days before residential streets that meet the above conditions are treated. Residential streets that meet the conditions will have a single lane treated on a grid by grid basis, so requests to the Streets Division are not necessary and will not change the order of response. Grids needing the most attention will be serviced first.